Interfacing Superconducting Artificial Atoms with Propagating Photons

Prof. Yen-Hsiang Lin - Dept. of Physics, NTHU

Interfacing Superconducting Artificial Atoms with Propagating Photons

Prof. Yen-Hsiang Lin - Dept. of Physics, NTHU

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DATE

2020-10-26


TIME

12:10


PLACE

R36169, 1F, Dept. of Physics, Building of Science College, NCKU

FIELD

Quantum Information Science


SPEAKER

Prof. Yen-Hsiang Lin - Dept. of Physics, NTHU

TITLE

Interfacing Superconducting Artificial Atoms with Propagating Photons


ABSTRACT

One fundamental problem in quantum technology is how to interface highly-coherent qubits with photons. The common approach in superconducting artificial atom application is circuit quantum electrodynamics(cQED), which utilize a mediator degree of freedom in the form of a far-detuned cavity mode. In this talk, I will present a different “atomic clock” like approach which contains no extra cavity mode degree of freedom buffering the superconducting qubit from the readout environment. With a superconducting fluxonium artificial atom directly connected to a 1D transmission line, we simultaneously achieved a strong coupling of a high-frequency “cycling” readout transition to the traveling waves and a nearly complete suppression of the spontaneous emission of the low-frequency “clocking" qubit transition. Our system realizes the simplest possible interface between a highly-coherent superconducting qubit and propagating photons for constructing quantum communication networks and single photon detectors.